Main Screen
The Sound Grid is an active Cartesian coordinate grid in which cursor
movement creates sound. Each Cartesian coordinate point in the grid
is mapped to pitch in the vertical direction, and volume in the horizontal
direction (optional)
 The current cursor coordinate is shown above the grid
 The duration of a note added to the grid may be selected from the radio
buttons at the right.
The instrument used for playback may be selected from those available
in the soundbank.
Playback with either the green "Play" button or the yellow "Play MIDI"
button. MIDI playback corrects some timing problems with slow processors
that may be discovered using the green "Play" button. Clear the composition
with the "Clear" button. The "Loop" checkbox allows repeated play
of the composition.
The corresponding piano note is shown above the grid.
Incremental composition is available for select intervals. Please
contact me if you would like intervals! jonnyq@scn.org
Options to map volume on the horizontal axis. The "Draw" checkbox
allows continuous note addition to the grid. The "Line" checkbox
draws lines between sequential notes. The "Rest" checkbox allows
rests to be added (as squares rather than circles) to the note sequence.
Adjust the scale of the grid here.
Adjust the ticks shown here.
Menu Items Compositions may be saved as MIDI files ("Save as MIDI"), or as sessions
files ("Save"). Note that SoundGrid only handles MIDI format 0 files.
Please report bugs. jonnyq@scn.org
Serial music composition functions reflect notes about the x axis and
reverse order of note playback.
Show a table of note data - note number, duration, volume, and color.
See below.
Table In the note table, edit x- and y- coordinate valued by double-clicking
on the datum.
Adjust duration values and color from the provided list.
Paste copied points from SoundGrid or a spreadsheet application using "Paste Points". Delete selected points using "Delete Points". Insert new points (with default note data) using "Insert Points".  |